Question

Not sure if I should or even can ask this here, but this is the closest I’ve gotten to finding the proper effect I’m looking for.

http://blog.onebyonedesign.com/actionscript/random-letter-cycling/

How do I go about using that? I understand a little (I at least know what an .as files is, but the code itself is mostly abracadabra to me), but I have no idea how to implement it. I want to apply that scrambled effect to several textfields on the canvas, would this code allow me to do that? Or is it written with just one textfield in mind?

In essence, I want to have several frames, each containing several textfields and each textfield should appear with that scrambler effect. The user will navigate through these frames using simple buttons, nothing too fancy.

I’d of course ask the author if I could, but he has disabled the comments on that article and I can’t find an email address anywhere on the site.

Apologies if questions like this don’t really belong here.

Answer 1

You have two pieces of code :

• The first one is the class LetterCycler itself, which contains the effect that interests you. You don’t have to understand how this class works, just copy it near your fla (in the directory structure com/onebyonedesign/extras/LetterCycler.as)
• The second one is an example on how to use it. You have to understand it, so you can modify it to fulfill your needs.

Few tips :

• You’ll need that line : private var _cycler:LetterCycler = new LetterCycler();
• You’ll probably need the method scrambleText and showText
• If you want to do something when the text is unscrambled, modify the body of the method cycleDone

Good luck.